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Three parts provide tenfold increase switcher
Three parts provide tenfold increase in switcher current
Jul 22, 2025 Circuits

Industrial-control circuits often derive their power from widely varying sources that can exceed the 40 V maximum rating of popular switching ICs...

Circuits help verify matched resistors
Circuits to help verify matched resistors
Jul 21, 2025 Circuits

Analog designers often need matched resistors for their circuits. The best solution is to buy integrated resistor networks, but what can you do if the parts vendors do not offer the desired values or matching grade?...

Inherently DC accurate 16-bit PWM TBH
Inherently DC accurate 16-bit PWM TBH DAC
Jul 20, 2025 Circuits

The 16-bit DACs are a de facto standard for high DC accuracy and precision domain conversion, but surprisingly few are fully 16-bit (0.0015%) precise...

Push ON push OFF AC voltages
Push ON, push OFF for AC voltages
Jul 17, 2025 Circuits

Stephen Woodward’s DI, “Flip ON Flop OFF” does a wonderful job for DC voltages. I thought of extending this idea to much-needed AC voltages...

Toshiba launches second product its SmartMCD
Toshiba launches second product in its SmartMCD series for automotive dual brushed DC motor applications
Jul 17, 2025 News

Toshiba Electronics Europe starts sample shipment for the TB9M001FTG, the second product in the innovative Smart Motor Control Driver series...

Simple PWM interface can program regulators
Simple PWM interface can program regulators for VOUT < VSENSE
Jul 15, 2025 Circuits

I recently published a Design Idea showing some very simple circuits for PWM programming of standard regulator chips, both linear and switching, “Revisited: Three discretes suffice to interface PWM to switching regulators”...

Take back half improves PWM integral
Take back half improves PWM integral linearity and settling time
Jul 10, 2025 Articles

PWM is a simple, cool, cheap, cheerful, and (therefore) popular DAC technology. Excellent differential nonlinearity (DNL) and monotonicity are virtually guaranteed by PWM...

Using generative AI create hardware prototypes
Using generative AI to create hardware prototypes
Jul 8, 2025 Articles

A project in the UK and the Netherlands is using Large Language Models (LLMs) to create hardware designs with a technique it calls...

5V powered charge pump battery charger
+5V powered charge pump battery charger
Jul 7, 2025 Circuits

The circuit below will trickle charge a four cell pack of AA or AAA NiMH batteries...

Use three-phase rectifier voltage reducer offline
Use a three-phase rectifier and voltage reducer for offline single-phase supplies
Jul 6, 2025 Circuits

Some industrial applications require you to feed a low-power dc/dc converter from a three-phase source and possibly to deal with line-to-line voltages of 200 or 400 V rms. Further, the neutral terminal of the ac source may be unavailable for connection...